Anyone able to help me try and recreate a sound with vital?

[jolly rock]

I tried recreating it with the help of someone before but couldn't seem to get it perfect. This the sound im trying to replicate is the melody from this song, and the sound the chords use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqVyemhQxtI

[tepid plover]

this sound takes like 10 seconds to make

i will make a video to show this

[jolly rock]

Thanks sm

[tepid plover]

to put in in words, it's a sine wave lightly FMing another sine wave

there's probably like, an additional harmonic or 2 in there

which would brighten the sound a bit, but that's the general idea

you can finesse with waveshapes, amounts, harmonics, bend modes, whatever

[jolly rock]

oooh cool thanks sm!

[jolly rock]

wdym by an additional harmonic?

[tepid plover]

A sine wave is a pure tone, the purest mathematical oscillation that does not generate any harmonics

Harmonics are a phenomenon where when you hear a sound, you are not only hearing the frequency of the sound, but multiple frequencies at the same time. It doesn't sound like separate frequencies because these additional frequencies are multiples or the fundamental frequency, as a result you hear many frequencies from a single note in most cases with most instruments but it's perceived as one "note"

In synthesis, since the sine wave is a pure tone, and we're using frequency modulation, FM is heavily affected by small changes in the the frequency content of the oscillators, so adding some of these upper harmonics, can drastically change the sound in this context

[jolly rock]

ooh alr, how do i add the upper harmonics, do i just need to mess around with the oscillation settings? Or is that what's its already doing with the second oscillation

[tepid plover]

click the pencil in the bottom right corner of the wavetable view, this lets you access the harmonic table and phase information for those harmonics, click any of those columns in the top half here and you can add harmonics, you will immediately hear the difference this makes

don't blast your ears by setting the volume of them too loud

[jolly rock]

ooh alright thanks, do i do that for both of the oscillators or just one?

[tepid plover]

you could do both if you want

[jolly rock]

ok

[tepid plover]

the logic of what you're doing changes, you have one oscillator affecting the other

so, you either have, oscillator 1 has additional harmonics and is being fmd by a sine wave, or you have oscillator 1 is a sine wave being fm'd by a sine wave with additional harmonics, or you have oscillator 1 and 2 are both custom waveforms

both will impact the sound in different ways